As someone whom has published computer science papers (if you count papers on rendering techniques as computer science), I can say the jargon isn't to make it sound more scholarly. It's more that we take for granted that anyone whom is interested in applying the contents of the paper would already have an understanding of the jargon. The jargon serves two purposes, it takes an otherwise vague statement and makes it specific while at the same time shorting the statement to fit inside of a sentence instead of a set of sentences.
Free quotemod.
This seems to be how the word "jargon" is itself is defined by journalists: words that know-it-all eggheads use.
How scientists would define "jargon" though: technical and field-specific vocabulary necessary to communicating fundamental and core concepts, often concepts that lay-persons and ASU journalism frat boys who cheated their way through algebra can not fathom.
People don't like those smarter than them. The subconscious mind will play tricks to maintain one's sense of self-value, one of these tricks is to devalue others and the work they do, and using the word "jargon" to deprecate the apparently incomprehensible vocabulary used in a specialized field is such an example. If reporting science "news", then it will likely be news for those in the field too, and should be written so it is not talking down. Journalists should especially avoid the danger of attempting to spell out to the lay person concepts they don't understand themselves, lest you get insulting and just plain wrong dreck such as the History Channel's The Universe episode "Extreme Energy", which was unwatchable.
Most of Google's profit comes from their automated data-mining of everything you (in the extreme plural sense) do. Manual data mining is much too slow, but there is exactly nothing stopping them from having the automated miners flagging some content for manual view.
This is more what users should be aware of, that the technology to scan user communication and profile behavior and take action based on this information likely was not developed solely to "catch a predator" - that is just an added feature Facebook can plug in to their system "play ball" with the FBI as a bargaining chip to avoid random server seizures. Users should be aware that their communication is being scanned, profiled, and possibly read by people for the only goal that a corporation has, profit.
This is also why I scoff at the identity protection companies that regularly advertise in the US. They have got a new one "protect your children's ID". It would seem the first step to protecting your "identity" is not to give out information about yourself to companies like these ID protection companies.. Just the phrase "steal someone's identity" is stupid, "misuse my credentials" wouldn't sell ads though.
I have one of these for seeing small things on the recommendation of someone else: http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2179604
Good for inspecting how clean the record stylus is, reading the markings on surface mount components, seeing what an iPhone4s pixel looks like. I probably use it once a week for something, knowing I having it. For examining cellular life, you'll need to prepare slides and have a real microscope, but for seeing what common materials like fibers look like up close, the cheapie does fine and is portable.
He didn't lockpick or jimmy the file cabinets, he made many guesses of what kind of combination might be used by those who administered the cabinets; the physicist that had set the combination had set them all to e.
The restoration fee is probably to discourage people from actually testing that restoration works. Backups are useless if you can't restore, so you must test regularly that you can restore everything you are backing up against scenarios like your server is stolen, the building burns down, or, in this case, if your VPS gets Pwned or feds on a raid seize every rack they see in your hosting center.
The FBI works for the POTUS. The guy that had to be told by SCOTUS that he doesn't have the right to disappear US citizens indefinitely without trial. I would recommend against telling the FBI you exist, let alone informing them of your political inclinations or computer expertise.
It sounds like the asker is in an enterprise windows network. What you might use yourself is different from what you replace an Excel spreadsheet with on your company's network.
I have deployed and administered Network Password Manager. A bland name for a very good Windows-only password manager. It has a real client and server, AES encryption, lets you create a tree of passwords, and access control to different parts of the tree is done with active directory, meaning you can let an "accountants" and/or "bookkeepers" group in your directory have read-only access to a tree "financial passwords", and a "managers" group or particular users can have modify or admin access to those passwords. This means you can just update personnel changes in active directory instead of having another program where you must update rights for every user. On dismissal, you can review passwords that the user had access to and reset just those apps/sites. Individual users can also have their own tree for their convenience that nobody else can access, although If I recall, the system admin can see all passwords.
This degree of rights control is very useful when you run several different programs on your own network with different user accounts, along with vendor account sites (ordering, financial, billing, shipping, etc.) where you have to bend to another company's account and password system, which might give your whole company only one or a few logins.
For my own stuff, I have text files (both flat and encrypted), passworded Firefox password manager, and Blackberry Password Keeper. A $50 Blackberry (with no SIM card if you have something to hide) makes for a better password device than anything purpose-built you can buy; with encrypted disk storage, encrypted password storage, and no-touch USB backup, it is pretty secure - you can set it to wipe itself if a bad password is entered just three times, it can take different passwords to unlock the device vs getting to password keeper, you can install "decoy" password apps, and there are no biometrics that can bypass protection (showing it a picture of you, or using your removed fingers or eyeballs).
This must be why air-laser consumer tech never came out of Silicon Valley or the UK; instead we have fiber optics. They knew about fog, so they pointed their lasers through glass tubes.
This seems just another "maker fair" type story, the type of which gets old and annoying - (undereducated person) discovers (old technology) made from (cheap new technology) thanks to (smarter people who understand new technology). It's a step above my research paper on popsicle-stick bridges though.
A spike is pointy. If it wasn't, I couldn't drive one into the heart of a vampire. It can point either direction like any pointy thing can, but is canonically used to indicate a temporary increase, such as a spike in power usage during a heat wave. Nobody would expect this to mean a decrease.
Your "another example" is the example from the article...
I also have some authority in practical uses of technology (such as HTML 2.0-level markup), so I'll pipe up. For munitions guidance, this could be used to refine the inertial navigation position model for intercontinental delivery of ordinance by missile, maybe?
When they outlaw nuclear missiles, only outla^h^h^h^h^h they will have nuclear missiles.
It is sad when submitters don't check for the best sources.
Fox news copied their story from The Syndey Morning Herald, who copied the story from The Telegraph (UK) (April 14). There is a follow up story on the Telegraph site too; the buried spitfire story was revealed by a war vet, and they found them and made bore holes and looked inside the crates.
If you install BS Player, ffdshow, and several AVISynth packages (windows only), you can see what the interpolated effect looks like, which approximates what real high-fps viewing might look like. Here are the instructions on guru3d.com. I would recommend not using the "frame doubling" method, but instead interpolate to 60 hz native refresh rate of your LCD screen - this can be done by changing the second to last script line to "source.MVFlowFps(backward_vec, forward_vec, 60, 1, mask=1, idx=idx1)".
Fire up some 24fps movies. You will notice that things seem to happen faster, and movements are quicker. This is because your brain is no longer putting together a perceivable slideshow - you can get the same "almost looks like slow motion" effect of film from old digicams that at 15fps. This effect will pass, and you start to see that things start to look more natural, the flowing of Thor's robes, the flames of the fire, you have a higher "looks like you are there" feeling. Poorly done CGI effects stick out though, the fast motion quickly reveals artificial non-physics-based movements and the too-smooth computer camera fly-throughs.
For a good example of real 60fps vs 24fps, you had to dvr the 30 Rock live show. They shot the live show at 1080i (30fps interlaced - 60fps motion equivalent when properly deinterlaced), and it looks like video instead of film.
In printing, black inks or toners tend to wick or spread into the white areas. On CRTs the effect is opposite, white tends to bleed into black areas (and be diffused by the shadow mask). We don't need to talk about either of these obsolete technologies, though.
Standard LCD screens do not alter the intensity of the backlight based on the information displayed on the screen, and the backlight and it's inverter is the majority of the power consumption. In addition, the drive circuit that aligns the liquid crystals can work opposite from how you expect in a TFT. Most TN screens, for example, are white or light gray when unpowered - refreshing the pixels to a black state takes more transistor drive than making the screen white. This is the technology you will find in most portable devices and computer monitors.
Some LED-backlit TVs use dynamic backlight, or even zone-dynamic backlight, where (mainly to create ridiculous contrast ratio specs) the backlight is reduced to the maximum temporal white level needed, or for multi-area addressable systems, the brightest backlight needed in an area.
The only portable devices where the brightness of the screen data is directly related to energy consumption would be those with OLED screens (such as the Samsung Galaxy SII line). The individual pixels are miniature LEDs, and when a pixel is black, they are turned off. On these AMOLED display phones, a black wallpaper can use far less power.
When I think of "power-saving webpages", I may be more concerned about one that runs my CPU at 100% for several seconds to display a page, Slashdot.
Another fucking idiot. Can't we IP ban stupidity? You put the key for hardware encryption on the drive so that you can erase 4096 bits and render the whole drive completely unreadable forever.
Except if this wolf comes, it has no relationship to a boy crying at all.
I would find it highly likely that research will show the vast majority of bombings come with no threat, and the vast majority of threats come with no bombing. You can completely disarm the threat as an act of terrorism by simply ignoring it or at least by giving the impression the threat was completely ignored. You must digitally sign your threatening email and not hide behind a remailer before we will take it seriously.
The most infuriating thing about this story is that by doing absolutely nothing illegal, you can have your property stolen by armed FBI thugs.
This is not a Rush Limbaugh forum, and your retarded post has nothing to do with the topic. If you watch the BBC documentary Madagascar, Lemurs and Spies, you'll see that Gibson looks guilty as hell. A researcher working with an endangered group of Lemurs sees illegal logging in protected wilderness, and they get a hidden camera lawyer posing as an American wood buyer to go deep inside the logging operation, documenting the mass harvesting and lumber mills there producing pallets of fingerboard blanks with the Gibson front company name all over. The sawmill owner even brags on camera about what they are doing.
By your logic, you would shut up and go away if the justice department put people at Gibson in jail. More likely, you would be here bitching about how another American company was shut down by the feds.
I didn't know who he is, but from the "discouraging budding scientists and engineers" quote, I figured he was probably the creator of Jersey Shore or 16 and Pregnant, or a basketball commissioner.
The yield of a process, which seems to be the percentages you are quoting, isn't directly related to the ability to rework hand-drawn rubylith masks. In fact, the 6502 worked with the very first tape-out (virtually unheard of).
Jack Tramiel was a typical narcissistic domineering businessman, who had a typewriter and then calculator business that bought it's way into computers with the acquisition of MOS, mainly to ensure their calculator chip supply. The amazing success of the 6502 and the Commodore computers can be attributed to the brilliance of a very small group of genius engineers at MOS, led by Chuck Peddle. There will not likely be a time again where we will know the developers of a CPU by name, a CPU that sold hundreds of millions and who's architecture is still in use.
Pavinen and Holt handed off the completed mask to the MOS technicians, who began fabricating the first run of chips. Bil Herd summarizes the situation. “No chip worked the first time,” he states emphatically. “No chip. It took seven or nine revs [revisions], or if someone was real good they would get it in five or six.”...
Implausibly, the engineers detected no errors in Mensch’s layout. “He built seven different chips without ever having an error,” says Peddle with disbelief in his voice. “Almost all done by hand. When I tell people that, they don’t believe me, but it’s true. This guy is a unique person. He is the best layout guy in world.”
If you have hours to watch it, here's an informal interview with Chuck Peddle from a year and a half ago, where he goes into depth about the design of the 6502 and the Commodore computers, working Jack and Microsoft, and all sorts of topics, in the kind of interview you never thought you would see from the central figure in all of CBM:
Many websites have started steering people to video versions of news stories. This is quite irritating, because the video content is mostly irrelevant b-roll footage, and the narrator ploddingly reads two paragraphs in three minutes. Three minutes for a news story that I could have read and comprehended in 10 seconds.
Unless there are mentos and soda, video is not needed.
As areal density increases on hard drives, so does the transfer rate. The linear density of a track increases, and the amount of data that passes under the head in one rotation of the disc increases. This is how the 5400rpm discs of today have 120MB/s transfer rates compared to the 10MB/s transfer rates of the same rotation speed ten years ago.
Imagining some system you don't own and benchmarks that exist only in your head is not a practical measure of what consumers will own in the future, and rotational media will continue to occupy the same place it does now for the next several years, as the mainstream consumer PC storage product, and as the main data (blu-ray rip) storage and backup media for enthusiasts with SSD operating system drives.
My next system will have a killer refresh rate with a P6 chip. Triple the speed of the Pentium. RISC architecture is gonna change everything. That's too much machine for you.
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As someone whom has published computer science papers (if you count papers on rendering techniques as computer science), I can say the jargon isn't to make it sound more scholarly. It's more that we take for granted that anyone whom is interested in applying the contents of the paper would already have an understanding of the jargon. The jargon serves two purposes, it takes an otherwise vague statement and makes it specific while at the same time shorting the statement to fit inside of a sentence instead of a set of sentences.
Free quotemod.
This seems to be how the word "jargon" is itself is defined by journalists: words that know-it-all eggheads use.
How scientists would define "jargon" though: technical and field-specific vocabulary necessary to communicating fundamental and core concepts, often concepts that lay-persons and ASU journalism frat boys who cheated their way through algebra can not fathom.
People don't like those smarter than them. The subconscious mind will play tricks to maintain one's sense of self-value, one of these tricks is to devalue others and the work they do, and using the word "jargon" to deprecate the apparently incomprehensible vocabulary used in a specialized field is such an example. If reporting science "news", then it will likely be news for those in the field too, and should be written so it is not talking down. Journalists should especially avoid the danger of attempting to spell out to the lay person concepts they don't understand themselves, lest you get insulting and just plain wrong dreck such as the History Channel's The Universe episode "Extreme Energy", which was unwatchable.
Windows has been using GPU acceleration since 3.0. They were just called video cards then, and it was GDI and not directx.
Here's a benchmark where a Voodoo 4 on Win98 out-BitBlts an Intel G45 on Aero.
Most of Google's profit comes from their automated data-mining of everything you (in the extreme plural sense) do. Manual data mining is much too slow, but there is exactly nothing stopping them from having the automated miners flagging some content for manual view.
This is more what users should be aware of, that the technology to scan user communication and profile behavior and take action based on this information likely was not developed solely to "catch a predator" - that is just an added feature Facebook can plug in to their system "play ball" with the FBI as a bargaining chip to avoid random server seizures. Users should be aware that their communication is being scanned, profiled, and possibly read by people for the only goal that a corporation has, profit.
This is also why I scoff at the identity protection companies that regularly advertise in the US. They have got a new one "protect your children's ID". It would seem the first step to protecting your "identity" is not to give out information about yourself to companies like these ID protection companies.. Just the phrase "steal someone's identity" is stupid, "misuse my credentials" wouldn't sell ads though.
I have one of these for seeing small things on the recommendation of someone else: http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2179604
Good for inspecting how clean the record stylus is, reading the markings on surface mount components, seeing what an iPhone4s pixel looks like. I probably use it once a week for something, knowing I having it. For examining cellular life, you'll need to prepare slides and have a real microscope, but for seeing what common materials like fibers look like up close, the cheapie does fine and is portable.
Now I've made a simple Google search for the unsalted password hash crack it: (about 0.22 seconds)
correcthorsebatterystaple
MD5 e9f5bd2bae1c70770ff8c6e6cf2d7b76
2xMD5 877545bf6da2cb337e8a38ee07c701c2
SHA1 bfd3617727eab0e800e62a776c76381defbc4145
2xSHA1 37dc3c7d0e0c3c78fc65e41a0c50668db3767b4a
SHA256 cbe6beb26479b568e5f15b50217c6c83c0ee051dc4e522b9840d8e291d6aaf46
2xSHA256 3945a11613fb45523453c83f17c9b3ca0dc0f06d68c4add18ba891bd68d2093a
He didn't lockpick or jimmy the file cabinets, he made many guesses of what kind of combination might be used by those who administered the cabinets; the physicist that had set the combination had set them all to e.
The restoration fee is probably to discourage people from actually testing that restoration works. Backups are useless if you can't restore, so you must test regularly that you can restore everything you are backing up against scenarios like your server is stolen, the building burns down, or, in this case, if your VPS gets Pwned or feds on a raid seize every rack they see in your hosting center.
The FBI works for the POTUS. The guy that had to be told by SCOTUS that he doesn't have the right to disappear US citizens indefinitely without trial. I would recommend against telling the FBI you exist, let alone informing them of your political inclinations or computer expertise.
It sounds like the asker is in an enterprise windows network. What you might use yourself is different from what you replace an Excel spreadsheet with on your company's network.
I have deployed and administered Network Password Manager. A bland name for a very good Windows-only password manager. It has a real client and server, AES encryption, lets you create a tree of passwords, and access control to different parts of the tree is done with active directory, meaning you can let an "accountants" and/or "bookkeepers" group in your directory have read-only access to a tree "financial passwords", and a "managers" group or particular users can have modify or admin access to those passwords. This means you can just update personnel changes in active directory instead of having another program where you must update rights for every user. On dismissal, you can review passwords that the user had access to and reset just those apps/sites. Individual users can also have their own tree for their convenience that nobody else can access, although If I recall, the system admin can see all passwords.
This degree of rights control is very useful when you run several different programs on your own network with different user accounts, along with vendor account sites (ordering, financial, billing, shipping, etc.) where you have to bend to another company's account and password system, which might give your whole company only one or a few logins.
For my own stuff, I have text files (both flat and encrypted), passworded Firefox password manager, and Blackberry Password Keeper. A $50 Blackberry (with no SIM card if you have something to hide) makes for a better password device than anything purpose-built you can buy; with encrypted disk storage, encrypted password storage, and no-touch USB backup, it is pretty secure - you can set it to wipe itself if a bad password is entered just three times, it can take different passwords to unlock the device vs getting to password keeper, you can install "decoy" password apps, and there are no biometrics that can bypass protection (showing it a picture of you, or using your removed fingers or eyeballs).
This must be why air-laser consumer tech never came out of Silicon Valley or the UK; instead we have fiber optics. They knew about fog, so they pointed their lasers through glass tubes.
This seems just another "maker fair" type story, the type of which gets old and annoying - (undereducated person) discovers (old technology) made from (cheap new technology) thanks to (smarter people who understand new technology). It's a step above my research paper on popsicle-stick bridges though.
Now do some high school science!
A spike is pointy. If it wasn't, I couldn't drive one into the heart of a vampire. It can point either direction like any pointy thing can, but is canonically used to indicate a temporary increase, such as a spike in power usage during a heat wave. Nobody would expect this to mean a decrease.
To be fair, he did ask for practical uses...
Your "another example" is the example from the article...
I also have some authority in practical uses of technology (such as HTML 2.0-level markup), so I'll pipe up. For munitions guidance, this could be used to refine the inertial navigation position model for intercontinental delivery of ordinance by missile, maybe? When they outlaw nuclear missiles, only outla^h^h^h^h^h they will have nuclear missiles.
It is sad when submitters don't check for the best sources.
Fox news copied their story from The Syndey Morning Herald, who copied the story from The Telegraph (UK) (April 14). There is a follow up story on the Telegraph site too; the buried spitfire story was revealed by a war vet, and they found them and made bore holes and looked inside the crates.
If you install BS Player, ffdshow, and several AVISynth packages (windows only), you can see what the interpolated effect looks like, which approximates what real high-fps viewing might look like. Here are the instructions on guru3d.com. I would recommend not using the "frame doubling" method, but instead interpolate to 60 hz native refresh rate of your LCD screen - this can be done by changing the second to last script line to "source.MVFlowFps(backward_vec, forward_vec, 60, 1, mask=1, idx=idx1)".
Fire up some 24fps movies. You will notice that things seem to happen faster, and movements are quicker. This is because your brain is no longer putting together a perceivable slideshow - you can get the same "almost looks like slow motion" effect of film from old digicams that at 15fps. This effect will pass, and you start to see that things start to look more natural, the flowing of Thor's robes, the flames of the fire, you have a higher "looks like you are there" feeling. Poorly done CGI effects stick out though, the fast motion quickly reveals artificial non-physics-based movements and the too-smooth computer camera fly-throughs.
For a good example of real 60fps vs 24fps, you had to dvr the 30 Rock live show. They shot the live show at 1080i (30fps interlaced - 60fps motion equivalent when properly deinterlaced), and it looks like video instead of film.
In printing, black inks or toners tend to wick or spread into the white areas. On CRTs the effect is opposite, white tends to bleed into black areas (and be diffused by the shadow mask). We don't need to talk about either of these obsolete technologies, though.
The above post has incorrect assumptions.
Standard LCD screens do not alter the intensity of the backlight based on the information displayed on the screen, and the backlight and it's inverter is the majority of the power consumption. In addition, the drive circuit that aligns the liquid crystals can work opposite from how you expect in a TFT. Most TN screens, for example, are white or light gray when unpowered - refreshing the pixels to a black state takes more transistor drive than making the screen white. This is the technology you will find in most portable devices and computer monitors.
Some LED-backlit TVs use dynamic backlight, or even zone-dynamic backlight, where (mainly to create ridiculous contrast ratio specs) the backlight is reduced to the maximum temporal white level needed, or for multi-area addressable systems, the brightest backlight needed in an area.
The only portable devices where the brightness of the screen data is directly related to energy consumption would be those with OLED screens (such as the Samsung Galaxy SII line). The individual pixels are miniature LEDs, and when a pixel is black, they are turned off. On these AMOLED display phones, a black wallpaper can use far less power.
When I think of "power-saving webpages", I may be more concerned about one that runs my CPU at 100% for several seconds to display a page, Slashdot.
Another fucking idiot. Can't we IP ban stupidity? You put the key for hardware encryption on the drive so that you can erase 4096 bits and render the whole drive completely unreadable forever.
Except if this wolf comes, it has no relationship to a boy crying at all.
I would find it highly likely that research will show the vast majority of bombings come with no threat, and the vast majority of threats come with no bombing. You can completely disarm the threat as an act of terrorism by simply ignoring it or at least by giving the impression the threat was completely ignored. You must digitally sign your threatening email and not hide behind a remailer before we will take it seriously.
The most infuriating thing about this story is that by doing absolutely nothing illegal, you can have your property stolen by armed FBI thugs.
This is not a Rush Limbaugh forum, and your retarded post has nothing to do with the topic. If you watch the BBC documentary Madagascar, Lemurs and Spies, you'll see that Gibson looks guilty as hell. A researcher working with an endangered group of Lemurs sees illegal logging in protected wilderness, and they get a hidden camera lawyer posing as an American wood buyer to go deep inside the logging operation, documenting the mass harvesting and lumber mills there producing pallets of fingerboard blanks with the Gibson front company name all over. The sawmill owner even brags on camera about what they are doing.
By your logic, you would shut up and go away if the justice department put people at Gibson in jail. More likely, you would be here bitching about how another American company was shut down by the feds.
I didn't know who he is, but from the "discouraging budding scientists and engineers" quote, I figured he was probably the creator of Jersey Shore or 16 and Pregnant, or a basketball commissioner.
The yield of a process, which seems to be the percentages you are quoting, isn't directly related to the ability to rework hand-drawn rubylith masks. In fact, the 6502 worked with the very first tape-out (virtually unheard of).
Jack Tramiel was a typical narcissistic domineering businessman, who had a typewriter and then calculator business that bought it's way into computers with the acquisition of MOS, mainly to ensure their calculator chip supply. The amazing success of the 6502 and the Commodore computers can be attributed to the brilliance of a very small group of genius engineers at MOS, led by Chuck Peddle. There will not likely be a time again where we will know the developers of a CPU by name, a CPU that sold hundreds of millions and who's architecture is still in use.
If the bottom line of the 6502 was affected by mask design, it is that they had the finest designers at MOS. The quote below is from the book ("On the Edge: the Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore"
Pavinen and Holt handed off the completed mask to the MOS technicians, who began fabricating the first run of chips. Bil Herd summarizes the situation. “No chip worked the first time,” he states emphatically. “No chip. It took seven or nine revs [revisions], or if someone was real good they would get it in five or six.” ...
Implausibly, the engineers detected no errors in Mensch’s layout. “He built seven different chips without ever having an error,” says Peddle with disbelief in his voice. “Almost all done by hand. When I tell people that, they don’t believe me, but it’s true. This guy is a unique person. He is the best layout guy in world.”
If you have hours to watch it, here's an informal interview with Chuck Peddle from a year and a half ago, where he goes into depth about the design of the 6502 and the Commodore computers, working Jack and Microsoft, and all sorts of topics, in the kind of interview you never thought you would see from the central figure in all of CBM:
Part 1: http://blip.tv/file/4055830
Part 2: http://blip.tv/file/4084084
Part 3: http://blip.tv/file/4084124
Many websites have started steering people to video versions of news stories. This is quite irritating, because the video content is mostly irrelevant b-roll footage, and the narrator ploddingly reads two paragraphs in three minutes. Three minutes for a news story that I could have read and comprehended in 10 seconds.
Unless there are mentos and soda, video is not needed.
Mr Potatohead! Backdoors are not secrets.
As areal density increases on hard drives, so does the transfer rate. The linear density of a track increases, and the amount of data that passes under the head in one rotation of the disc increases. This is how the 5400rpm discs of today have 120MB/s transfer rates compared to the 10MB/s transfer rates of the same rotation speed ten years ago.
Imagining some system you don't own and benchmarks that exist only in your head is not a practical measure of what consumers will own in the future, and rotational media will continue to occupy the same place it does now for the next several years, as the mainstream consumer PC storage product, and as the main data (blu-ray rip) storage and backup media for enthusiasts with SSD operating system drives.
My next system will have a killer refresh rate with a P6 chip. Triple the speed of the Pentium. RISC architecture is gonna change everything. That's too much machine for you.